Plus a whole lot more. . .
We begin with bodacious bluster via the Japan Times:
North Korea warns of wiping Japan ‘off world map’ over U.N. resolution
North Korea on Sunday denounced a recent U.N. resolution condemning its human rights violations, warning of retaliation against Japan and other sponsor countries.
“We will take toughest counteraction” against the United States, and “Japan, too, can never escape this toughest counteraction,” the North Korean National Defense Commission said in a statement, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency reported.
“Japan should bear in mind that if it continues behaving as now, it will disappear from the world map for good, not just remaining a near yet distant country,” the statement continued.
More from Punch Nigeria:
N’Korea furious over UN human rights ruling
North Korea’s top military body has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for supporters of the latest United Nations censure on its human rights record, as state media reported leader Kim Jong-Un presided over fresh military drills.
A resolution asking the UN Security Council to refer North Korea’s leadership to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for possible charges of “crimes against humanity” passed by a resounding vote of 111 to 19 with 55 abstentions in a General Assembly human rights committee last week.
Introduced by Japan and the European Union and co-sponsored by some 60 nations, the resolution drew heavily on the work of a UN inquiry which concluded in February that the North was committing human rights abuses “without parallel in the contemporary world”.
On to the war of the moment, via the Associated Press:
Islamic State group recruits, exploits children
Teenagers carrying weapons stand at checkpoints and busy intersections in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul. Patched onto the left arms of their black uniforms are the logos of the Islamic Police.
In Raqqa, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital in Syria, boys attend training camp and religious courses before heading off to fight. Others serve as cooks or guards at the extremists’ headquarters or as spies, informing on people in their neighborhoods.
Across the vast region under IS control, the group is actively conscripting children for battle and committing abuses against the most vulnerable at a young age, according to a growing body of evidence assembled from residents, activists, independent experts and human rights groups.
From Deutsche Welle, German recruits:
German intelligence: Dozens of Germans killed fighting for ‘IS’
German intelligence sources say some 60 Germans have died fighting for the jihadist group “Islamic State.” Many others have returned from conflict zones in Syria and Iraq – and now pose a threat at home.
At least 60 Germans have died fighting alongside militants from the jihadist group “Islamic State” (IS) with at least nine being killed in suicide attacks, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen said in an interview published Sunday.
Maassen told the weekly Bild am Sonntag that some 550 radical German Islamists had gone to conflict regions in Syria and Iraq to help IS in an offensive that has seen the group capture large amounts of territory in both countries in recent months.
German authorities were increasingly concerned about the high figure, which had gone up more rapidly in the past six weeks, he said, calling it “a sad success for Islamist propaganda.”
The London Telegraph covers those from Britain:
Muslim MP: 2,000 Britons fighting for Islamic State
Labour MP Khalid Mahmood says 2,000 jihadists have travelled to Syria and Iraq from the UK – a fourfold increase on official estimates
As many as 2,000 Britons are fighting alongside Islamist militants in Syria and Iraq, a senior Muslim MP has claimed.
Officials had suggested that the number of British jihadists within the ranks of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) and other terrorist groups was about 500.
However, Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, a constituency with a significant number of Muslims, has suggested this was a fourfold underestimate of the number of British jihadists fighting in the region.
“The authorities say there are 500 British jihadists but the likely figure is at least three to four times that,” he said. “I think 2,000 is a better estimate. My experience in Birmingham is it is a huge, huge problem.”
And the Guardian covers the inevitable:
Increased terror threat is stretching resources, says Met police chief
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says security services have halted four or five plots this year, as terrorism awareness campaign begins
Security services have foiled four or five terrorist plots this year and the threat is increasing, Britain’s top policeman has said.
Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the heightened threat was putting pressure on resources and hinted that he expects the government to increase funding in the autumn statement.
The comments, in an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, came before the launch of a nationwide terrorism awareness campaign. Officers will be briefing more than 6,000 people at 80 venues including schools, universities, airports, shopping centres, cinemas and farms in a bid to engage the public and businesses in preventing attacks.
From TheLocal.fr, a French recruit:
Armed Isis Islamist grew up in small French village
One of three Kalashnikov-wielding Islamists seen burning their French passports in an Islamic State propaganda video this week grew up in a small village in southern France, the mayor said Saturday.
The 26-year-old, who goes by the name of Abou Ossama Al-Faranci in the Internet video, left the village of some 1,400 people five years ago, residents told the newspaper La Depeche du Midi.
The bearded blue-eyed man seen in the footage urging Muslims to stage attacks in France was reported to have gone to school in the village and have converted to Islam, studying the Koran in a Muslim centre in a private home.
And from TheLocal.se, the Swedish contingent:
Up to 300 Swedes fighting with Isis: report
As many as 300 Swedes could have joined the Islamic State insurgency, Sweden’s intelligence chief said Saturday.
“A hundred cases of people who have left to join the fighting have been confirmed, then there are the presumed cases…, and then there are those that have not been counted, which brings the total to between 250 and 300,” said the head of the intelligence services, Anders Thornberg, on Sveriges Radio.
Thornberg said the flow of youths leaving to become jihadists in Syria was rapidly rising.
“A certain number of young Swedish men are leaving and training in camps, learning to become terrorists to use explosives and weapons,” he said.
And from north of the U.S. border via CBC’s The National:
Canadians volunteer to fight ISIS
Program notes:
Canadian volunteers have joined the ground war against ISIS. Are their actions legal? And would they fire at a radicalized Canadian?
While the Diplomat covers other Asian concerns:
Islamic State and a South Asian Caliphate
Islamic State has its eyes on South and Southeast Asia. The threat is long-term, but should not be ignored.
Although Islamic State’s ultimate aspirations are unrealistic, some of its targets in Asia are vulnerable, most notably that cradle and crucible of terrorism on the continent, Pakistan. Bordering Afghanistan, where terrorist violence is already resurgent with NATO thinning out, Pakistan is a promising base for Islamic State in South Asia. It also offers a huge bonanza that Islamist movements would willingly bleed for: nuclear weapons.
Although Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are guarded by a professional army, the degree to which the Pakistan Army itself has been radicalized is not easily quantifiable. After all, this is the same Army that sends its officers for tenures in the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Whether these officers return to the army with or without any radical leanings is anyone’s guess.
Pakistan-based terror groups seem to be leaning more and more towards Islamic State. Tehrik-e-Taliban, Pakistan (TTP) is a fractured entity today. More and more of its members are openly declaring their allegiance to Islamic State. The recluse Taliban supremo, Mullah Omar, and the staid al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Jawahri are losing ground.
Afghanistan also offers fertile ground for terror. The Afghanistan Taliban shares with Islamic State a strategic approach in which both prefer control and domination of territory as the prime objective. However, the Afghanistan Taliban would like to retain its primacy in Afghanistan. It may not want to be an Islamic State surrogate. Its long association with al-Qaeda is another obstacle.
Unrest in France from the Guardian:
Protesters clash with police in France over young activist killed by grenade
Remi Fraisse, 21, was killed by a so-called ‘offensive grenade’ during a standoff between police and opponents of a dam project
Protesters clashed with police in southern France on Saturday over the death of a young activist killed by a police grenade, in the latest of a series of demonstrations which have embarrassed the Socialist government.
At least 16 people were arrested in Toulouse after garbage containers were set on fire and bus stops smashed on the margins of an otherwise peaceful march where demonstrators held placards reading “end to the licence to kill”.
Remi Fraisse, 21, was killed last month by a so-called “offensive grenade” during a standoff between police and opponents of a dam project in wetlands near Toulouse. Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve later ordered these devices banned.
From RT, Falangist frolics:
Far-right Spaniards mark anniversary of General Franco’s death
Hundreds of far-right activists gathered in Madrid center to commemorate the anniversary of the death of General Franco. Fascist symbols were seen at the rally which praised the late dictator.
Around 300 far-right activists gathered on Orient Square in Central Madrid on Sunday to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the death of the fascist dictator and Falange party’s leader Francisco Franco. The general died on November 20, 1975.
Organized by several far-right political parties and nationalist organizations including Nudo Patriota Espanol, Movimiento Catolico Espanol and Patriotas, the event also marked the anniversary of the death of Jose Primo de Rivera, the founder of Falange Espanola who was executed by the Spanish republican government on November 20, 1936. Falange Espanola, created in 1933, was a nationalist party inspired by Italian fascism.
More questions about an Old Blighty coverup, via the Independent:
Child abuse cases are ‘tip of the iceberg’ in sexual exploitation of young people, said Theresa May
The cases of child abuse exposed so far are only the “tip of the iceberg” of the extent of sexual exploitation of young people, the Home Secretary Theresa May has warned.
Ms May spoke of her dismay over the number of abusers who have been able to operate with impunity both in the past and today.
She said it was impossible to assess whether the activities of a paedophile ring involving senior figures in public life were covered up in the 1980s, but insisted an independent inquiry into historical sex abuse would establish the full facts.
“It’s not possible to say whether there was a cover-up, that is why I think it is so important we have the inquiry so we get at the truth,” she told the Andrew Marr Show.
From the Los Angeles Times, misconduct afloat:
Captain of San Diego-based warship relieved of duty
The captain of one of the Navy’s premier warships has been relieved of command after an investigation found that he routinely used foul and abusive language toward crew members and engaged in inappropriate touching and questioning of women.
Capt. Wayne Brown was relieved as commander of the San Diego-based amphibious assault ship Boxer after an investigation concluded that he had “lost the respect, trust and confidence of his subordinates” because of his temper and his behavior toward female crew members that included touching and also asking them whether they were using birth control with their husbands or boyfriends, according to the investigative report.
Brown created a “hostile, offensive and intimidating work environment,” according to the investigation that was undertaken after complaints from enlisted personnel and junior officers.
From BBC News, superbug:
Regin, new computer spying bug, discovered by Symantec
A leading computer security company says it has discovered one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software ever seen.
Symantec says the bug, named Regin, was probably created by a government and has been used for six years against a range of targets around the world. Once installed on a computer, it can do things like capture screenshots, steal passwords or recover deleted files.
Experts say computers in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Ireland have been hit most. It has been used to spy on government organisations, businesses and private individuals, they say.
Hacks in China, from Want China Times:
Domain names in China hacked by overseas IPs
Nearly 60% of dot-com domain names in China were hijacked by backdoor programs in the first half of 2014 and 48.8% of them were controlled by overseas IP addresses, the Beijing-based China Securities Journal reports.
Huang Chengqing, director of China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT or CNCERT/CC) disclosed the statistics at a forum on cyber security at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province on Nov. 20.
Domain names are the addresses websites use to allow internet users to find them. When one gets hijacked, the person looking for that site gets redirected to a site controlled by hackers. In many cases though, hackers can be traced back to their IP address or special idenifier each computer has.
After the jump, Chilean colonels convicted of torturing a presidential father, a controversial Israeli redefinition, an Israel warning to France over Palestinian recognition, an Israeli solder busted, a British arms sale exposed, China seeks stronger security ties with Egypt as Cairo tightens the reins of internal repression, Iranian nuclear deal hits stumbling blocks as Kerry pushes against the deadline, on to China and a military espionage arrest, an academic’s prison sentence upheld, new China missile can reach the U.S., China seeks insular partnerships while Uncle Sam objects to one Chinese insular development as a Chinese officer gives the rationale, Coast Guard militarization, and another press prosecution. . .
From BBC News, sins of the past:
Chile colonels jailed for torturing President Bachelet’s father
Two retired Chilean colonels have been jailed for repeatedly torturing the father of President Michelle Bachelet in 1973.
General Alberto Bachelet was arrested and tortured for opposing the military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet. He died in 1974 of a heart attack caused by the torture inflicted on him.
The former air force colonels – Ramon Caceres Jorquera and Edgar Ceballos Jones – were given three and two years in prison respectively.
They “repeatedly committed the crime of applying torture” to their former superior, judge Mario Carroza said in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
From the Los Angeles Times, exclusionary redefinition:
Proposed Israeli laws could widen divide between Jews, Arabs
Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday gave its approval to controversial legislation defining Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people — a measure critics decried as racist and a threat to democracy.
At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the drafting of legislation that would allow the revoking of Jerusalem residency for Palestinians who carry out terror attacks, and that of their families as well.
Taken together, the steps were likely to fuel tensions between Israel and its Arab citizens – who make up about 20% of the population – and also between Israeli authorities and the 300,000 Palestinians who live in parts of east Jerusalem that have been in effect annexed by Israel. Most of them have residency rights but not citizenship.
A warning, from Channel NewsAsia Singapore:
Netanyahu warns of ‘grave mistake’ if France recognises Palestine
A draft of the proposal in France “invites the French government to use the recognition of the state of Palestine as an instrument to gain a definitive resolution of the conflict”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday (Nov 23) that France’s parliament would be making a “grave mistake” if it recognises a Palestinian state in a vote on Dec 2.
“Do they have nothing better to do at a time of beheadings across the Middle East, including that of a French citizen?” he told reporters in Jerusalem, referring to hiker Herve Gourdel who was executed by his militant captors in Algeria in September. “Recognition of a Palestinian state by France would be a grave mistake,” Netanyahu said.
“The State of Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, the only state that we have, and the Palestinians demanding a state do not want to recognise the right to have a state for the Jewish people,” Netanyahu told members of Israel’s growing Jewish community from France.
An Israeli solder busted, from the McClatchy Foreign Staff:
Israeli officer charged in shooting death of Palestinian teen
An Israeli border policeman was charged with manslaughter on Sunday in the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager during a protest in the West Bank, a rare case in which a member of the security forces has been prosecuted for killing a Palestinian.
The charges, brought after forensic findings showed that the youth had been hit with a round from the policeman’s rifle, contradicted earlier claims by the military and police that no live fire had been used.
The incident occurred during stone-throwing protests on May 15 outside Ofer Prison, where Palestinians are jailed near Ramallah. Four Palestinians were hit by gunfire during the protest and two were killed, Nadim Nawara, 17, and Muhammad Salameh, 16.
A British arms sale exposed, from the Independent:
UK approved £7m Israeli arms sales in six months before Gaza conflict
Britain approved the sale of arms to Israel worth £7m in the six months before its offensive on Gaza this summer, including components for drones, combat aircraft and helicopters along with spare parts for sniper rifles, according to figures seen by The Independent.
The government data will raise fresh concerns that British-made equipment was used by the Israeli military during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in July and August, which led to more than 2,000 Palestinian deaths and 73 Israeli fatalities, 66 of them soldiers.
The Independent can reveal that ministers in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) have also ordered a fresh review of military export licences to Israel granted prior to the outbreak of the conflict after officials found 12 instances where arms containing British components may have been used in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
From Global Times, China seeks stronger security ties with Egypt:
China hopes to boost security cooperation with Egypt: senior official
China is willing to further cooperate with Egypt in security and law enforcement to better serve their national security respectively and maintain the regional stability, a visiting senior Chinese security official said in Cairo on Sunday.
Speaking highly of such cooperation, Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that China hopes to further facilitate the exchange of visits of law enforcement personnel between the two countries, with an aim to enhance their professional capabilities.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special envoy, Meng met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab.
As Cairo tightens the reins of repression, from USA Today:
Egypt faces a new, harsher kind of repression
Nearly four years after ousting one dictator, Egyptians may be facing an even more oppressive regime.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former army chief, is bringing military-like precision to target dissent by tightening control of the media and issuing a decree that could further obstruct justice in the nation.
“A lot of people have been silenced, killed by Sisi,” said Nagy Gabbala, 42, who lives in a crowded neighborhood in western Cairo. “He ties our wrists. There is no freedom.”
Since ousting an Islamist leader 17 months ago, more than 41,000 people have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown against Islamists, secular activists, protesters, students and journalists, according to the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights. Hundreds have died in the ensuing political turmoil.
Iranian nuclear deal hits stumbling blocks via Global Times:
Iran says final nuke deal with major powers impossible by deadline
It will be impossible by the Novemebr 24 deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement with major countries over Tehran’s nuclear issue, Iran’s Students News Agency (ISNA) reported Sunday, citing a member of the country’s negotiating team.
“Considering the short time left until the deadline and number of issues that needed to be discussed and resolved, it is
impossible to reach a final and comprehensive deal by November 24,” the unnamed member of the negotiating team said in Vienna, Austria.
News reports said Iran is considering to extend the time of the talks by up to a year.
“The issue of extension of the talks is an option on the table and we will start discussing it if no deal is reached by Sunday night,” the source said.
As Kerry faces the deadline, from the London Telegraph:
John Kerry battles to save Iran nuclear talks as deadline looms
The US secretary of state is holding a series of meetings with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, in a last-ditch attempt to secure an agreement on the country’s nuclear programme
The US secretary of state held two more meetings with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, at the Palais Coburg in Vienna.
After his final meeting with Mr Zarif, Mr Kerry said: “We’re continuing to chip away in Vienna.”
Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said: “We’re all focused on trying to get to a deal but I wouldn’t want to give any false hopes here. We’re still quite a long way apart and there are some very tough and complex issues to deal with.”
Mr Hammond predicted a “last push, a big push” on Monday to “try and get this across the line”.
On to China, starting with an arrest, via China Daily:
Media reveals aircraft carrier base spying case
A Chinese man who had been arrested for taking photos of an aircraft carrier base and selling them to a foreign spy is awaiting trial, CCTV reported on Saturday.
The man, surnamed Cao, is from the eastern city of Qingdao, Shandong province. He had taken photos of an aircraft carrier base in Qingdao for a man who had claimed to be the editor of a military magazine, and was reportedly paid “a large sum of cash”.
CCTV reported that the man who claimed to be an editor is a foreign spy that has long been tracked by Chinese security agencies.
An academic’s prison sentence upheld, from the Christian Science Monitor:
China upholds life sentence for Uighur academic
Economist Ilham Tohti received a life sentence in September for ‘splittism’ and ‘inciting hatred.’ Many in the academic and diplomatic community say he is a rare prominent voice of moderation.
A Chinese court upheld a life sentence for internationally respected Uighur economist Ilham Tohti today, angering human rights groups and many in the academic and diplomatic communities who describe him as a voice of moderation during ongoing ethnic unrest in China’s far west.
In September, Mr. Tohti was charged in an Urumqi court with “splittism” and “inciting hatred” and was given a life sentence. The harshness of the ruling was condemned by American and European governments and leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The decision came amid ongoing violence between the ethnic Uighur and Han communities in China’s western Xinjiang Province – and state media appeared to paint Tohti as an abetter of terrorism.
A missile revelation, via Want China Times:
PLA’s JL-2 missile can reach US mainland: report
China’s JL-2 second-generation intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missile, which has the ability to reach the continental USA, is already believed to be deployable by the People’s Liberation Army, reports Huanqiu, the Chinese-language website of the nationalistic Global Times tabloid.
The Julang-2 — literally “Giant Wave 2″ — has reached a preliminary level of proficiency, according to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its report to US Congress on Nov. 20.
The report, which criticizes China’s “unsafe, unprofessional and aggressive” behavior and the intimidation of its neighbors in the Asia-Pacific over the past year, also claims that the new nuclear submarine capable of carrying the JL-2 is planning its maiden voyage before the end of the year.
“The JL-2, when mated with the PLA Navy’s JIN-class (SSBN), will give China its first credible sea-based nuclear deterrent,” the report said.
China seeks insular partnerships, from China Daily:
China, Pacific island countries announce strategic partnership
China and eight Pacific island countries agreed in Nadi on Saturday to establish a strategic partnership featuring mutual respect and common development.
The agreement was announced at a meeting between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and the leaders of the eight countries, namely Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Micronesia President Emanuel Mori, Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’ Neill, Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman, The Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna, Tonga Prime Minister Siale’ataonga Tu’ivakano and Niue Prime Minister Toke Talagi.
All the eight island countries have established diplomatic ties with China since the 1970s.
Insular objections raised, from South China Morning Post:
US asks China to stop building Spratlys island which could host airfield
Massive island has been created by reclamation project on Fiery Cross Reef, according to report
The United States has urged Beijing to stop its reclamation projects in the South China Sea, as a report provided more details on a massive island being built in the disputed waters.
According to a report by IHS Jane’s Defence, China had over the past three months used dredgers to build an island about 3,000 metres long and 200 to 300 metres wide on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands. The reef – which China calls Yongshu Reef – was previously under water.
The results of the dredging are captured in satellite pictures obtained by IHS Jane’s that cover a period between August 8 and November 14. The reclamation efforts were also noted in a US Congress report on Thursday.
As a Chinese officer gives the rationale, from the Asahi Shimbun:
Chinese military officer explains need for construction in disputed Spratlys
In a rare disclosure, a high-ranking Chinese military officer told foreign media about the need for construction and a base in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
“There is a need for a base to support our radar system and intelligence-gathering activities,” Jin Zhirui of the Chinese Air Force Headquarters said at the Xiangshan Forum, a national security dialogue session on Nov. 22.
China has done land reclamation work at six of the seven reefs in the islands it calls Nansha. Foreign analysts have pointed out that Beijing has also been constructing facilities on those reefs.
Coast Guard militarization, from the Diplomat:
The Militarization of China’s Coast Guard
Plans for China’s still nascent coast guard suggest troubled times ahead in disputed waters.
With new “China Coast Guard” ships entering service at regular intervals, it is easy to forget that the China Coast Guard as an organization does not yet exist in any complete sense. Legislation passed in March 2013 to integrate the ranks (duiwu) of four maritime law enforcement agencies into a new China Coast Guard within a re-constituted State Oceanic Administration (SOA) was a pledge of commitment rather than a plan of action. Many, many difficult decisions would have to be made, countless details to be fleshed out. That responsibility would largely fall on Meng Hongwei, the first head of the China Coast Guard, and Liu Cigui, Director of SOA and the China Coast Guard’s first political commissar.
Four months later, the State Council released a redacted version of the SOA reorganization plan (colloquially called the Sanding Fangan), a document adumbrating the planned structure of the two organizations. In some areas the Sanding Fangan was exquisitely precise: The three regional SOA offices and their China Coast Guard units would have exactly 16,296 billets. In many other respects, it was strikingly vague.
The biggest unanswered question was what kind of organization would the China Coast Guard be? The four entities brought together to form the China Coast Guard resided in different departments; they all functioned on completely different organizational structures, their personnel steeped in different cultures and trained for different missions.
And finally, press prosecution from China Daily:
Chinese newspaper, magazines punished
China’s press watchdog has revoked the license of a newspaper and suspended operations of three magazines for illegally transferring of their publication rights.
The cases involved the Commercial Times, Electronics World, Net Friend World, and China Chain Store, said the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) in a release on Saturday.
Inner Mongolia-based Commercial Times has lost its license because it had allowed cultural companies and individuals to have publication and operation rights since 2010.
